California Highway Patrol officers and law enforcement from all over Los Angeles chased a stolen car suspect for over an hour in the San Fernando Valley Friday night before finally taking him into custody.
The chase began in Sherman Oaks shortly after 9 pm.
Police chased the driver on the 101 Freeway, surface streets In North Hollywood and Burbank, the 5 Freeway, the 210 Freeway and seemingly everywhere in between.
At one point, the suspect jumped out of the allegedly stolen car and tried to steal another vehicle, but it was locked. At the same time, the suspected stolen car rolled into the back of the other car targeted by the driver, at which point of suspect jumped back into the first sedan and drove off.
The chase also extended through construction zones, freeway off-ramps and on-ramps.
The chase eventually ended near the 210 Freeway after the suspect hit what appeared to be a spike strip.
He suspect jumped out of his vehicle, tossed a bag to his side and ran a few feet before surrendering to police.
He was handcuffed and taken into custody without further incident. His identity of him was not released.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy weighs in on President Biden’s approach to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit and what Pelosi could have done differently on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy explained how President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi alike should have approached her Taiwan visit Friday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY: Biden has shown weakness from the very beginning of Afghanistan. Watch how he allowed China to speak to America, first on our soil in Alaska. And then what did he do when Nancy Pelosi was going to Taiwan? He showed weakness again, said, “Well, the military doesn’t want her to go. Well, it’s Nancy.” Why didn’t he stand up for America and say China’s not going to dictate when and who goes to Taiwan?
NANCY PELOSI DEPARTS TAIWAN AFTER VISIT CRITICIZED BY CHINA
China would have had a different opinion about what they said and did. But the other point about Nancy Pelosi — I support Americans going to Taiwan. But if you’re Speaker of the House, wouldn’t it have been stronger if you took a bipartisan group? Every other congressional delegation that travels overseas has to be bipartisan. It’s only the speaker — when she goes to Ukraine, she makes it partisan — Democrats only. When she goes to Taiwan, she made it only Democrats. Wouldn’t it have been a stronger voice to China as well, if you had Republicans and Democrats together?
A fire that tore through a Pennsylvania house killed 10 people — including three children — early Friday morning, all of whom were members of the same family and related to a volunteer fireman who responded to the blaze.
Three children, ages 5, 6 and 7, and seven adults were killed in the Nescopeck blaze, state police said. Three others were able to escape the inferno, according to first responders.
Nescopeck volunteer firefighter Harold Baker told The Citizens’ Voice of Wilkes-Barre that the victims included his son, daughter, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, three grandchildren and two other relatives.
“When we turned the corner up here on Dewey [Street] I knew right away what house it was just by looking down the street,” Baker told the paper. “I was on the first engine, and when we pulled up, the whole place was fully involved. We tried to get in to them.”
Thirteen dogs were also in the home it went up in flames around 2:30 am, Baker told WNEP. It was unclear if any of them survived.
Crews work to demolish the house destroyed by a fatal fire on the 700 block of 1st Street in Nescopeck on Aug. 5, 2022.APA Pennsylvania State trooper and members of the Luzerne County Coroner’s Office are at the scene of the fire in Nescopeck on August 5, 2022. AP
“The kids that were there and my two kids were just visiting their aunt and uncle. Those were the ones who owned the house. They were there visiting and going into the pool and all that,” Baker reportedly said.
A loud popping sound or explosion was heard by neighbors, who reported seeing the home quickly go up in flames.
“They’re all dead,” a young man screamed in front of the home, some neighbors reportedly said.
A “complex criminal investigation” was underway, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Derek Felsman said.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse, who voted to impeach Donald Trump, advanced Friday to the general election following days of vote counts in Washington state’s primary, but fellow Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler saw her advantage against an opponent endorsed by Trump rapidly shrink to within recount territory with thousands of votes left to count.
Both drew interparty challenges due to their vote to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Newhouse, the four-term incumbent in the 4th Congressional District in central Washington and Democrat Doug White were essentially tied, with each capturing about 25% of the vote on a crowded ballot. White also advanced to the fall ballot. Loren Culp, a Trump-endorsed former small town police chief who lost the 2020 governor’s race to Democrat Jay Inslee, was at about 21%.
In the 3rd Congressional District in southwestern Washington, Democrat Marie Perez was the top vote getter, with 31% of the vote. Herrera Beutler, who had about 24% on Tuesday night, dropped to 22.6% Thursday night, 257 votes ahead of Joe Kent – a former Green Beret endorsed by Trump — who was at 22.5%.
A mandatory recount would occur if the margin of votes between the No. 2 and No. 3 candidates is less than half of 1% and closer than 2,000 votes.
Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week.
An estimated 35,000 votes are left to count, and the three counties where votes remain to be counted — the majority of it in the 3rd District’s largest county, Clark, — won’t update their tallies again until late Monday afternoon. Counties have until Aug. 16 to finish their count and for canvassing boards to certify the results, followed by certification by the secretary of state by Aug. 19.
Under Washington’s primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote getters in each of Tuesday’s races advance to the November election, regardless of party.
Of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, four opted not to run for reelection. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was defeated in a primary Tuesday by Trump-endorsed John Gibbs and Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in June. Rep. David Valadao of California — which has an open primary like Washington — survived a primary challenge. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is bracing for defeat in her Aug. 16 primary against a Trump-backed rival.
In another key match in the 8th Congressional District, incumbent Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier advanced to the November ballot with more than 47% of the vote, and will face former state attorney general candidate Matt Larkin in November.
With about 17% of the vote, Larkin edged out King County Council Member Reagan Dunn, a former federal prosecutor whose mother once held the seat. Dunn granted the race Thursday. The district is a key target of GOP efforts to retake control of the House.
Flash flooding at Death Valley national park closed all roads into the park, buried cars and stranded about 1,000 people on Friday.
A deluge brought “nearly an entire year’s worth of rain in one morning” into the famously hot and dry park in the California desert. At least 1.7in (4.3cm) of rain fell in the Furnace Creek area; the park’s average annual rainfall is 1.9in (4.8cm).
About 60 vehicles were buried in debris and about 500 visitors and 500 park workers were stranded, park officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries and the California transport department estimated it would take four to six hours to open a road that would allow park visitors to leave.
It was the second major flooding event at the park this week. Some roads were closed on Monday after they were inundated with mud and debris from flash floods that also hit western Nevada and northern Arizona hard.
The rain started around 2am, said John Sirlin, a photographer for an Arizona-based adventure company who witnessed the flooding as he perched on a hillside boulder where he was trying to take pictures of lightning as the storm approached.
Video and photos posted by Sirlin on social media showed fast flowing water, toppled palm trees and cars trapped by debris.
Major flash flooding in Death Valley National Park this morning. Approximately two dozen vehicles trapped in mud and rock debris at the Inn at Death Valley. Took nearly 6 hours to get out. #cawx#stormhourpic.twitter.com/3rDFUgY7ws
“It was more extreme than anything I’ve seen there,” said Sirlin, who lives in Chandler, Arizona, and has been visiting the park since 2016. He is the lead guide for Incredible Weather Adventures and said he started chasing storms in Minnesota and the high plains in the 1990s.
“I’ve never seen it to the point where entire trees and boulders were washing down. The noise from some of the rocks coming down the mountain was just incredible,” he said in a phone interview on Friday afternoon.
“A lot of washes were flowing several feet deep. There are rocks probably 3 or 4 feet covering the road,” he said.
Sirlin said it took him about 6 hours to drive about 35 miles (56 kilometers) out of the park from near the Inn at Death Valley.
“There were at least two dozen cars that got smashed and stuck in there,” he said, adding that he didn’t see anyone injured “or any high water rescues”.
During Friday’s rainstorms, the “flood waters pushed dumpster containers into parked cars, which caused cars to collide into one another. Additionally, many facilities are flooded including hotel rooms and business offices,” the park statement said.
A water system that provides it for park residents and offices also failed after a line broke that was being repaired, the statement said.
A flood advisory remained in effect into the evening, the National Weather Service said.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — One person has died after a crash on I-96 Friday evening, according to Michigan State Police.
The crash happened around 4:45 pm on eastbound I-96 south of 28th Street, according to the Kent County Sheriff’s Office.
MSP said that a black Jeep was traveling east on I-96 when it rear-ended a blue BMW, which was then pushed into a third vehicle.
A passenger in the BMW was taken to the hospital where they were later pronounced dead. The driver of the BMW was also taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
The driver of the jeep was not injured, but two children who were riding in the Jeep were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, troopers said. The people in the third vehicle were not injured, state police said.
Eastbound I-96 was closed at 28th Street immediately following the crash, but it has since reopened.
AITKIN, Minn. — A jury on Friday ruled that a central Minnesota pharmacist did not violate a woman’s rights when he refused to provide her emergency contraceptives more than three years ago.
Andrea Anderson, a mother of five from McGregor, sued under the Minnesota Human Rights Act after the pharmacist, based on his religious beliefs, refused to accommodate her request. State law prohibits discrimination based on sex, including issues related to pregnancy and childbirth.
The ruling comes amid national political debate about contraception under federal law, with the US House passing a bill that would guarantee the right to contraception. House Democrats are worried that a conservative US Supreme Court that already erased federal abortion rights could go further and limit the use of contraception.
Leaders with the group Gender Justice, which represented Anderson, said they plan to appeal, Minnesota Public Radio News reported.
“The testimony was so clear that she received lesser services than other customers because what she was going there for was emergency contraception. And so we believe that, by law, that’s discrimination in Minnesota,” said Jess Braverman, legal director for the advocacy group.
Anderson brought her prescription for a morning-after pill to the Thrifty White pharmacy in McGregor in January 2019. Longtime pharmacist George Badeaux told her he could not fill the prescription based on his beliefs.
Anderson eventually got her prescription filled at a pharmacy in Brainerd, making the round-trip of more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) in winter driving conditions.
Attorneys for Badeaux did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Protesters gather at People’s Park on Aug. 4 to discuss preventing UC Berkeley from starting construction at the site. Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight
Two eventful days after UC Berkeley attempted to begin construction on a controversial student housing project at People’s Park, a state appeal court approved a stay order halting all construction and changes until October.
Judge Teri Jackson signed the stay order Thursday to allow the court to review an appeal petition by Make UC a Good Neighbor and the People’s Park Historic Advocacy Group on their original California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit.
It’s another development in a court case by the plaintiffs, who appealed the case (again) after an Alameda County judge shot down their argument on July 29.
The appeals court had granted the plaintiffs another stay order in early July that prevented any construction at the park throughout the month. UC Berkeley began construction almost immediately when that protection expired, rolling construction crews onto the site at midnight on Wednesday to the opposition of protesters.
In the 12-hour stand-off that ensued, protesters mobilized in the middle of the night, sat in front of construction crews blocking construction equipment, tore down fences and forced UC Berkeley to withdraw hundreds of mutual aid law enforcement officers and construction crews out of concern for their safety.
UC spokesperson Kyle Gibson said in a statement Friday that the university is disappointed by the court’s decision, but is confident in its legal position regarding CEQA.
The court order allows Cal to keep fences up at the property, but prevents any further demolition, construction, tree cutting or alterations to the site.
“While this new injunction will add further delay and significant additional costs to the project, we are pleased the court has agreed to an expedited process,” Gibson said. “We are also satisfied with the court’s decision to allow the campus to close and secure the construction site pending the expedited ruling.”
UC Berkeley had already halted construction due to ‘safety concerns’
Law enforcement presence at People’s Park on Aug. 3, before UC Berkeley decided to halt construction temporarily at the site. Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight
On Wednesday morning, UC Berkeley police reported that protesters threw “rocks, bottles, and glass” at crews working at the park. Protesters spray-painted and damaged machinery and tore down fences at the site.
Authorities arrested seven people on suspicion of battery of a police officer, trespassing, resisting, obstructing and delaying an officer, according to Gibson.
As it proceeds with its plans, UC Berkeley says it is prioritizing the safety of construction crews and everyone in the area. Gibson said “the campus is now assessing options to get that done in a safe, effective way” and that it will “explore all feasible options to make up for lost time.”
Cal plans to build a student housing complex at the site with 1,100 beds for students and an additional 100 affordable units for mixed-income levels through a partnership with Resources for Community Development.
“While we are dismayed by the readiness of some individuals to engage in dangerous, violent and unlawful activity as a way of expressing their opposition to the project, our commitment to addressing an urgent student housing crisis, and to supporting unhoused members of our community, is unwavering,” Gibson said.
Activists continue to fight — legally and on the ground
People mill around the trees that were felled on Aug. 3 when UC Berkeley construction at People’s Park. Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight
Before the court decision, activists at the park who continued to occupy the area as of Thursday night they said they were prepared to hold down the site for as long as it took to stop construction.
Protesters, many of them young people, held a large rally at UC Berkeley Wednesday afternoon that ended at People’s Park. There, they discussed strategies and reiterated their demands for the park.
There were some disagreements between two groups: One set, an older generation of activists who aim to preserve the park’s 53-year-old history as a communal gathering space and home for counterculture movements, who have primarily fought the university through the court system; and another group comprised of current UC Berkeley students are more focused on land rights and services for homeless residents who moved into the park during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Another coalition, Defend People’s Park, wants the land to be returned to indigenous stewardship, homeless residents who lived at the park to be connected to permanent housing and for UCPD to be defunded and those financial resources redirected to services for homeless residents, as well as Cali students and staff.
Surrounded by felled trees at the park on Wednesday evening, many activists in both cohorts who had been awake for over 24 hours spoke about what the park means to them and why they continue to fight for its existence. People who have fought for housing in other parts of the Bay Area came to support their efforts.
Misty Cross, one of the co-founders of Moms4Housing in Oakland, likened the struggle at People’s Park to the ongoing closure of the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland, which is under threat of closure after a destructive fire. A judge recently ruled that people who live at the park need to be housed before the encampment is shut.
The city of Berkeley partnered with Cal to lease the Rodeway Inn to house the park’s homeless occupants; most moved there before construction began. They also funded a daytime drop-in shelter on Haste Avenue to divert homeless residents from the park and provide a variety of services, including meals, a respite area, device charging, a restroom and lockers.
“Housing is a human right,” Cross said, to resounding cheers from the gathered crowd. “I stand here in solidarity because I too was affected by [this machine].”
A jury in Minnesota ruled on Friday that a pharmacist did not commit discrimination when he did not fill an emergency contraception prescription for a woman after her prior contraceptive method failed, according to the gender advocacy group Gender Justice.
A jury in Aitkin County found that a pharmacist’s decision not to provide an emergency contraception prescription to plaintiff Andrea Anderson after citing his “beliefs” did not constitute discrimination.
According to court documents, Anderson went to the only pharmacy located in her town to retrieve a prescription of emergency contraception after another method failed, but the pharmacist there rejected her request.
The filing further claims that she would later have to drive more than 100 miles in total in order to get her morning after pill after having several pharmacies reject her request.
Anderson was awarded $25,000 over emotional harm caused by the initial pharmacist who rejected to fill the prescription.
“I can’t help but wonder about the other women who may be turned away,” Anderson said in a statement.
“What if they accept the pharmacist’s decision and don’t realize that this behavior is wrong? What if they have no other choice? Not everyone has the means or ability to drive hundreds of thousands to get a prescription filled.”
The legal director for Gender Justice, which is representing Anderson, said it plans to appeal the decision.
“To be clear, the law in Minnesota prohibits sex discrimination and that includes refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception,” Gender Justice Legal Director Jess Braverman said in a statement. “The jury was not deciding what the law is, they were deciding the facts of what happened here in this particular case.”
5:10 pm — Severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for parts of the District, eastern Montgomery and western and northern Prince George’s County
Storms have flared up quickly over the last hour with a zone of torrential rain and strong winds between northeast Washington and Laurel, including Landover, Greenbelt and Beltsville. While isolated very strong wind likes are possible, lightning and heavy downpours are the main hazard with this area of storminess. Some areas in this zone could see up to 3 inches of rain. The storm activity is slowly drifting north-northeast; some areas could see downpours for an hour or so before the rain eases.
Original forecast from 4:30 pm
Temperatures strove for 90 this afternoon and tended to make it. Upper 80s and low 90s, plus soupy humidity, is enough in most spots for plentiful shower and thunderstorm activity, which continues into and through the evening. The weekend won’t be a washout, but we’ll run a chance for showers and storms both days. It’s possible our heat wave could extend a couple more days as well.
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Through Tonight: Scattered showers and storms remain possible through the evening, probably ending near or after sunset. Any of these storms can drop up to several inches of rain in a short time, causing localized flooding. There’s also a risk of damaging winds, mainly in downbursts from collapsing storms. Once past the storm threat, it’s partly cloudy overnight — perhaps patchy fog in the usual spots near bodies of water and such. Winds will blow lightly from the south as temperatures fall through the 70s.
View the current weather at The Washington Post.
Tomorrow (Saturday): Partly to mostly sunny skies of the morning turn cloudier with time. There could be a few late-day showers or storms, but probably considerably fewer than today. High temperatures are pretty close to 90. Humidity remains high, with dew points near or above 70, meaning it feels more like 95 to 100 in the afternoon.
Sunday: Skies are partially sunny. A few afternoon showers and thunderstorms are possible. They could linger into the evening. Afternoon temperatures reach the low 90s in many spots. Winds will blow from the southwest around 5 to 10 mph. Dew points in the 70s make it feel closer to 100 in the afternoon.
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